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What's New!
- NEW ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 08-451 Lawyer’s Obligations When Outsourcing Legal and Nonlegal Support Services
- A Guide to Professionalism Commissions (Second Edition)
- Read the August 2008 Eye on Ethics article from Your ABA: Lawyer as legislator by Peter Geraghty, ETHICSearch Director
- At the 2008 ABA Annual Meeting the ABA House of Delegates action:
- adopts the Model Rule for Registration of In-House Counsel for those jurisdictions that elect to impose registration requirements on lawyers practicing therein under Model Rule 5.5(d).
- deferred action to amend Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.10 (“Imputation of Conflicts of Interest: General Rule”)
- See complete list of House actions and video news of the ABA Annual Meeting
- Nominations for the 2009 Michael Franck Award are now being accepted with a deadline of December 12, 2008.
- Congratulations to the recipients of the 2008 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Awards: Drake University Law School, the Ohio State Bar Association and Pro Bono Net.
- ABA and Center Members – New subscribers to the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct can receive up to a 15% discount off of the annual subscription.
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